You guys will love this.
One of my housemates has a 93 mustang convertible. It's his prize and joy,
and oh how he has scoffed at me for buying an MG "It'll always break down"
he says "not like my trusty mustang" he says. So anyway, last week the
stereo stopped working. There's poor old bill scratching his head in
confusion at the labyrinth of gubbins under the hood. So magnaminous as i am
I help him find the fault (half-arse installed power-lead got crimped
against the frame and shorted the whole system out). "Be careful the battery
isn't too flat" says I. "It'll be fine" he says and drives of jollily into
the sunset. Sure enough that afternoon the car won't start and he has to get
a jump in the supermarket parking lot. The same things happens twice more
over the next few days: "Should never have bought an american car", says I,
"it'll always break down". Bill pulls a face. Anyway, off we go to diagnose
the problem and the alternator is patently shot (jump the car it runs, pull
the ground off the battery and it stalls). So we spend an entire afternoon
putting in the new alternator - the joys of the MGBs spacious engine bay
become blatently apparrent, even to Bill.
Then, oh joy of joys, we jump start Bills 93 king-of-cars mustang, with my
79B, I would have taken a photo, but unfortunately you can't see which way
the electricity is going! Anyway "Make sure the battery isn't too
knackered", says I. "It'll be fine" says Bill, very pleased at how much
brighter his lights are all of a sudden.
Suffice it to say that i had to go and rescue him from the fast-lane hard
shoulder of interstate 80 yesterday morning. So if any of you whizzed past a
white 79B jump-starting a 93 red mustang by the central divide of the I-80
between davis and sacramento yesterday rush-hour morning. That was me
enjoying a moment of extreme pathos as I jump started bill's car (again),
only this time in front of the entire commuting community. Irony, upon
pathos, though - how many of those people will have assumed it was the B
that broke down?
cheers
Joe
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Dr. Joseph Garner
University of California
Department of Animal Science
One Shields Avenue
Davis
CA 95616
USA
Phone: (530) 754 5291
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